Tuesday, 5 May 2009

Botanic Gardens, fountain

This monument known as 'Love Led Them' is a small bronze fountain figure of a Cupid (a young boy with bow and arrows and wings) on a marble plinth, set in the central pond of the Pioneer Memorial Garden. It was sculpted by Paul R. Montford (1868-1938) and marks the precise spot of the centre of the dome of the former Garden Palace, a grand exhibition building built in 1879 that burnt down three years later.